Science subject and location tags

Saturday, 29 July 2017Vinyl life? A compound that may form cell wall-like structures has been detected in the dense atmosphere of Saturn's moon Titan.Subjects: astronomy-space, planets-and-asteroids, news

Thursday, 1 June 2017Parker Solar Probe It's been on NASA's bucket list for 60 years, and now the ambitious mission to touch the Sun is in its final phase before launch. So just how do you send a spacecraft into the Sun without it burning up?Subjects: astronomy-space, space-exploration, spacecraft, stars, news

Wednesday, 26 April 2017Historic mission NASA's Cassini spacecraft begins the first of 22 historic dives between Saturn and its rings to collect valuable data about the environment, before it ends its mission by plunging into the planet in September.Subjects: astronomy-space, planets-and-asteroids, news

Friday, 14 April 2017Alien life The likelihood of one of Saturn's moons harbouring life has been boosted with the discovery by NASA's Cassini spacecraft of molecular hydrogen spewing from the moon's surface.Subjects: astronomy-space, planets-and-asteroids, news

Tuesday, 11 April 2017 Astronomers discover the faintest galaxy ever glimpsed in the early universe, shedding light on a critical period of time just 700 million years after the Big Bang.Subjects: astronomy-space, the-universe, galaxies, news

Tuesday, 4 April 2017How the sky works Finding Jupiter or the Southern Cross is easy if you know where to look - and that's easy too once you know how the movement of the Earth affects our view of the sky.Subjects: astronomy-space, planets-and-asteroids, stars, indepthfeature

Saturday, 1 April 2017Off Track In a West Australian landscape billions of years old sits the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder, a cutting edge astronomical facility designed to listen to the dawn of time.Subjects: astronomy-space, telescopes, indepthfeature

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